Singing to your child

I sing to my kitties Spikeford Jones and Thomas Jay all the time. Mostly I take popular songs and change the lyrics. The newest single on the album goes like this:

Spikeford don't preach.
I'm in trouble deep.
Spikeford don't preach.
I've been losin' sleep.
But I've made up my mind,
IIIII I'm pinching your bu-utt.
Gonna pinch your bu-utt

Then I pinch Spike's kitty butt and he purrs. It has been our morning routine. I sing my new hit song to him while he rubs up on my legs.

What's funny is, I would sing a song about Tommy Jay to the tune of Spider Man and then when I went home to meet Squishy after she was born, my brother had a song he sang about her to the tune of Spider Man. We're definitely related.

I will sing to BabySquirrel...probably similar silly songs that I makeup but some old favorites too. Currently I sing "You are my Sunshine" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."



Do/did you sing to your child? If so, what do/did you sing? Lullabies? Popular songs? Showtunes? Your own originals?

I am of course looking for things to add to my repertoire.

 

I do the SAME THING to the dog.

Two of my favorites that I've come up with:

To the tune of "Single Ladies"
All the fluffy puppies, all the fluffy puppies.
All the fluffy puppies, all the fluffy puppies.

Just woke up, look at my pup, doing his puggle thing.
I needed to dip, but now he's gonna flip, saying momma you should be walking me.

If you love me then you should put the leash on me.
If you love me then you should put the leash on me.
Don't be mad when I try and stop to smell the leaves,
If you love me then you should put the leash on me.

Bark bark bark, bark bark bark bark bark bark

To the tune of the Keyboard Cat songs
Eddie is a fluffy puppy, he's so fluffy and a puppy
Look at him he is so fluffy
Eddie is my fluffy puppy

 

I am constantly trying to make myself laugh by making up ridiculous words to whatever song is stuck in my head. I do this regardless of whether my kids are around. But if they are around, I try to keep the swears to a minimum. I blame Weird Al Yankovic.

 

Popeye the sailor man. The kid loved it. It really helped, because if a bad singing voice were a crime, I would be in Folsom.

 

I also sing to my dogs. The reigning favorite is "Puppy Face" (to the tune of "Poker Face.")

I don't have kids, but it seems like I always end up singing to the little ones I babysit. The Ants Go Marching, Mairzy Doats, Rainbow Connection, Bingo (as in, "and Bingo was his name-o"), various songs from Blue's Clues...

One of my favorite lullabies is a song Aurelio Voltaire wrote for his son years and years ago, called "Goodnight, Demon Slayer." I don't sing it to kids I babysit (not entirely sure how their parents would take that), but I fully intend to sing it to my potential future minions--it's about how the kid shouldn't be afraid of monsters, because he can totally kick any of their asses.

 

I like replacing the words of the songs with meows. Kinda like this:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIbVF88PKs



The kids like it right up to the point where they find it fucking annoying. And then I'm like "Sucks when someone is all annoying with the noises they make around you, huh?"

 

I sing to Little Levite all the time. Mostly traditional Jewish songs, Hebrew liturgy or Yiddish and Ladino folk songs, but also other stuff: English, Scottish, and Irish folk songs, American folk classics, old standards, and so forth. He loves music, and likes being sung to. At bedtime, I sing him to sleep, too.

 

I sing (and talk) to my cat Blue all the time. Sometimes she responds with a meow or two, sometimes I just get snuggles. It's mostly silly things I made up along the way.

I don't have kids. If I did, I'd sing to/with them. I have fond memories of my mom singing to/with me. Chattanooga Choo Choo was one of my favorites. Not sure why she chose to sing it to me, but I'm glad she did.


View: http://youtu.be/Yg3p1v0ZOdE


She also did an amazing Miss Piggy voice. I really loved The Muppets.

 

I sing songs to and about my pets all the time. Usually things I make up as I go along - to a variety of different melodies. My favorite is the theme song to Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar.

It goes:
Charlie, good time Charlie
Everybody's friend

And I replace it with Simba. Whenever I sing it the Boohead groans out loud - she hates it when I sing. But I don't care.

I have a special song for Muffin that mostly involves just singing her name in a high-pitched voice, sometimes I will make up lyrics, but she goes nuts rubbing up against my legs every time I sing 'her song.'

I don't remember singing much to my kids, but I probably did now and then.

 

I don't sing about or to my pets, but when the kids were young, the 2 younger ones would not go to sleep without Daddy singing them a song. Their favourites were Morningtown Ride, All Through The Night, and Any Dream Will Do. Oddly, now that they are older, they can't stand my singing

 

I sing to my daughter all the time, she likes The Doors a lot, and Richie Valens, she also used to get the 'walk and bounce' song when she was a newborn, it never failed to put her to sleep quickly.

 

Totally just lost my shit!

 

Um, I don't really sing to my dogs as much as I talk in funny voices. Like when I get up for the day, I say, Hellloooo! How are you? in an old-lady English accent. I talk to them a lot. And I've always talked in funny voices, not just to the dogs. <oh god>.

I did sing to my human children, especially to music, but as genuinegirly described, different types of hymns or lullabies when they were infants that morphed into more upbeat toddler songs as they grew. When they got to be age 12 or so they stopped appreciating my singing to music in the car. I have no idea why.

 

Most people don't understand that I really am reading Simba's thoughts when I speak out loud for him in 'his voice.' They think I'm making it up.

 

I only sing to my children as a form of punishment
or to wake them up in the morning.
I like to get them up with a little Tibetan throat singing of "good morning to you."
Their hatred of the chanting only improves its effectiveness.

 

I changed words to songs and other things.
This little piggy went to Grammas
This little piggy napped at home
This little piggy at popcorn
This little piggy ate a bone
And this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way to the bathroom.